A small lock-n-lock that will fit only small items. Placed with permission and assistance of the pastor.

This is the first of a planned series of caches located at churches around Laurel. It will bring you to the memorial garden of First United Methodist Church of Laurel (FUMCL). "First Church" was built in 1884. For more information on the history of this church, check out the Waymark First United Methodist Church.

It is OK to use gate behind the church from the parking lot.

I originally placed this cache on December 8, 2008 in honor of my son's 12th birthday.

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Did not load DG's event in Laurel in the handheld GPS, just the car GPS, so I did not know there was an OCNA listed cache near the event until he told me so. Pulled it up on c:geo and found it. Took a while though, it was really "in there", so much so that I tried a few other places before going back to the first target area. Did not trade, TFTC.